items tagged with Semiconductors
Intel turns up heat on AMD with 45nm Penryn production
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-10-26 06:07:43
Barely a month after AMD shipped its long awaited 65 nanometer Barcelona quad-core processor, its larger rival Intel has tightened the screws once again with the commencement of production of its 45nm Penryn range of processors.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-10-26 06:07:43
Barely a month after AMD shipped its long awaited 65 nanometer Barcelona quad-core processor, its larger rival Intel has tightened the screws once again with the commencement of production of its 45nm Penryn range of processors.
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IBM, MediaTek team for ultra-fast wireless chips
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-10-22 15:51:55
IBM and MediaTek are working together to develop chipsets based on millimetre wave (mmWave) technology for ultra-fast wireless networking and AV connections.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-10-22 15:51:55
IBM and MediaTek are working together to develop chipsets based on millimetre wave (mmWave) technology for ultra-fast wireless networking and AV connections.
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Sony sells Cell factory to Toshiba
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology Industry
Category: Deals & Wheels - Contracts
2007-10-18 20:00:43
Toshiba will take over the chip production facilities currently used by Sony to produce key components for the PlayStation 3, including the Cell processor.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology Industry
Category: Deals & Wheels - Contracts
2007-10-18 20:00:43
Toshiba will take over the chip production facilities currently used by Sony to produce key components for the PlayStation 3, including the Cell processor.
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Broadcom puts 3G phone on a chip
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Mobiles
2007-10-15 16:19:07
A new chip from Broadcom delivers many of the functions expected from a modern mobile phone in a single component, reducing power consumption and cost.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Mobiles
2007-10-15 16:19:07
A new chip from Broadcom delivers many of the functions expected from a modern mobile phone in a single component, reducing power consumption and cost.
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AMD reveals triple-core desktop CPU
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-09-17 20:32:20
AMD has added a triple-core processor to its desktop roadmap, with deliveries slated to begin in the first quarter of 2008.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-09-17 20:32:20
AMD has added a triple-core processor to its desktop roadmap, with deliveries slated to begin in the first quarter of 2008.
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Proposed flash standard to reduce card clutter
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Storage
2007-09-16 18:08:52
A new flash memory card specification has the backing of three major mobile phone companies and other parts of the electronics industry.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Storage
2007-09-16 18:08:52
A new flash memory card specification has the backing of three major mobile phone companies and other parts of the electronics industry.
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In the beginning was the Apple...and the Acorn
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-09-11 18:06:55
Apple is fond of claiming it "ignited the personal computer revolution," but the recognition of pioneer from those early days reminds us that there were other once hugely successful brands, now long gone.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-09-11 18:06:55
Apple is fond of claiming it "ignited the personal computer revolution," but the recognition of pioneer from those early days reminds us that there were other once hugely successful brands, now long gone.
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AMD claims new quad-core Opteron smokes Intel
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-09-10 04:33:44
Chipmaker AMD has released its new quad-core Opteron server processor, claiming a significant performance edge over Intel. According to AMD, Under the newest SPECcpu2006 benchmarks, AMD dual-core Opteron processors beat Intel Xeon equivalent by up to 15%. However, the jury is still out as to how the new quad-core Opteron stacks up against Intel's quad-core server offerings.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-09-10 04:33:44
Chipmaker AMD has released its new quad-core Opteron server processor, claiming a significant performance edge over Intel. According to AMD, Under the newest SPECcpu2006 benchmarks, AMD dual-core Opteron processors beat Intel Xeon equivalent by up to 15%. However, the jury is still out as to how the new quad-core Opteron stacks up against Intel's quad-core server offerings.
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IBM's atomic art on display
Written By: Tony Austin
Section: A Meaningful Look
Category: Personal and Enterprise Computing
2007-09-08 05:23:25
IBM scientists in 1990 famously wrote the letters of the company name by very carefully arranging single atoms. Now an online gallery of such atomic images has been opened for our wonder and delight.
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Written By: Tony Austin
Section: A Meaningful Look
Category: Personal and Enterprise Computing
2007-09-08 05:23:25
IBM scientists in 1990 famously wrote the letters of the company name by very carefully arranging single atoms. Now an online gallery of such atomic images has been opened for our wonder and delight.
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Is Australia really an ICT powerhouse?
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Market News
2007-09-03 01:06:02
According to industry analyst firm Longhaus, Australia holds a key position in the manufacturing of next-generation processors, mobile phones and digital cameras.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Market News
2007-09-03 01:06:02
According to industry analyst firm Longhaus, Australia holds a key position in the manufacturing of next-generation processors, mobile phones and digital cameras.
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AMD extends x86 instruction set with SSE5
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-08-30 17:09:07
AMD's SSE5 extension to the x86 instruction set is designed to improve the performance of technical, multimedia and security applications.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-08-30 17:09:07
AMD's SSE5 extension to the x86 instruction set is designed to improve the performance of technical, multimedia and security applications.
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Tilera seeks processor performance crown with 64-cores
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2007-08-20 06:49:59
Not content with dual or quad core technology, Tilera’s newly available TILE64 Processor, equipped with 64-cores and a mesh-like interconnect that eliminates bottlenecks, seeks to usurp the processor performance crown.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2007-08-20 06:49:59
Not content with dual or quad core technology, Tilera’s newly available TILE64 Processor, equipped with 64-cores and a mesh-like interconnect that eliminates bottlenecks, seeks to usurp the processor performance crown.
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Samsung's flash plant quickly back in action
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-08-06 17:42:16
The effects of the power shortage that shut down Samsung's flash memory production lines were not as bad as originally feared.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-08-06 17:42:16
The effects of the power shortage that shut down Samsung's flash memory production lines were not as bad as originally feared.
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Broadcom to target Symbian cellphones with comms processors
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2007-07-25 17:12:52
Communications chipmaker Broadcom plans to make a range of chips for wireless applications on mobile phones using the Symbian S60 smartphone development platform. The semiconductor company intends to bring to market a range of 3G mobile, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS processor products.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2007-07-25 17:12:52
Communications chipmaker Broadcom plans to make a range of chips for wireless applications on mobile phones using the Symbian S60 smartphone development platform. The semiconductor company intends to bring to market a range of 3G mobile, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS processor products.
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Intel launches ‘extreme speed’ mobile processors
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2007-07-16 21:02:11
‘Extreme’-ly fast mobile processors from Intel have just been launched, giving notebook users desktop speeds, giving hardcore gamers the best mobile experience and granting talented digital media artists maximum on-the-move power.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2007-07-16 21:02:11
‘Extreme’-ly fast mobile processors from Intel have just been launched, giving notebook users desktop speeds, giving hardcore gamers the best mobile experience and granting talented digital media artists maximum on-the-move power.
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AMD: Barcelona quad-core to outperform Intel Clovertown
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-06-29 21:31:46
Chipmaker AMD has stated that it is on track to ship its long awaited quad-core Barcelona processors in August promising "significant performance enhancements" over existing architectures. The AMD chips will be the first processors to implement four processing cores on a single die, unlike Intel's Clovertown Xeon processors which achieve four cores by bridging two dual-core processors together.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-06-29 21:31:46
Chipmaker AMD has stated that it is on track to ship its long awaited quad-core Barcelona processors in August promising "significant performance enhancements" over existing architectures. The AMD chips will be the first processors to implement four processing cores on a single die, unlike Intel's Clovertown Xeon processors which achieve four cores by bridging two dual-core processors together.
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Nvidia launches Tesla "personal supercomputing" GPU
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-06-20 22:17:15
Graphics chip maker Nvidia has launched a new high performance computing processor series based on its graphics processing unit (GPU) technology which the company claims will make parallel computing power more pervasive and affordable.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-06-20 22:17:15
Graphics chip maker Nvidia has launched a new high performance computing processor series based on its graphics processing unit (GPU) technology which the company claims will make parallel computing power more pervasive and affordable.
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Alereon chip may signal doom for USB cables
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-06-19 02:16:07
Alereon's announcement of its AL5000 family of ultrawideband (UWB) components may be the trigger for the broad adoption of Wireless USB and other UWB technologies around the world.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-06-19 02:16:07
Alereon's announcement of its AL5000 family of ultrawideband (UWB) components may be the trigger for the broad adoption of Wireless USB and other UWB technologies around the world.
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Intel's Bearlake chipsets debut at Computex
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-06-05 04:29:56
Intel's 3 Series chipsets - codenamed 'Bearlake' - have arrived at Taiwan's Computex trade show.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-06-05 04:29:56
Intel's 3 Series chipsets - codenamed 'Bearlake' - have arrived at Taiwan's Computex trade show.
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Apple II: Thirty years ago the first PC went on sale
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Energy
2007-06-04 17:59:15
Thirty years ago, on June 5, 1977, what is generally considered the first successfully commercial personal computer (PC), the Apple II, went on sale. Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs invented it.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Energy
2007-06-04 17:59:15
Thirty years ago, on June 5, 1977, what is generally considered the first successfully commercial personal computer (PC), the Apple II, went on sale. Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs invented it.
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